dpkg-query
is a command line tool to query the dpkg database. dpkg-query [option…] command
Long form | Argument | ||
-l | --list | [package-name-pattern…] | See also apt list |
-W | --show | [package-name-pattern…] | |
-s | --status | [package-name…] | Report status of specified package or display all package entries in the status database. Compare with dpkg -s . |
-L | --listfiles | package-name… | |
--control-list | package-name | ||
--control-show | package-name control-file | ||
-c | --control-path | package-name [control-file] | |
-S | --search | filename-search-pattern… | |
-p | --print-avail | [package-name…] | |
-? | --help | ||
--version |
--admindir=dir | |
--load-avail | |
--no-pager | |
-f , --showformat=format | dpkg-query --show -f '${Package} ${Version} ${Section}\n' |
important
: $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Package} ${Priority}\n' | grep important | cut -f 1 -d' ' adduser apt apt-utils cpio cron debconf debconf-i18n debian-archive-keyring dmidecode fdisk gpgv groff-base ifupdown init iproute2 iputils-ping isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common kmod less libbz2-1.0 libcap2-bin libpcre3 logrotate man-db nano net-tools netbase netcat-openbsd nftables procps rsyslog systemd systemd-sysv udev vim-common vim-tiny